Former party chair says he will lead a ‘Doge team’ inspired by Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Zia Yusuf has said he will return to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, just two days after quitting the party.

Yusuf was the rightwing party’s chair but resigned on Thursday after suggesting it was “dumb” of the party’s newest MP to ask the prime minister if he would ban the burqa.

From spending review to China audit to assisted dying vote, June’s events have potential to lift or darken Labour mood

As Keir Starmer approaches his first anniversary in Downing Street, there will be several things he wishes he had done differently. But before he can contemplate that July milestone, he faces a busy month strewn with political bear traps.

June has proven a difficult time for successive prime ministers: Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak all had to contend with deeply unhappy parliamentary parties reeling from heavy local and European election losses.

Tory leader says she has not seen Trump’s banned list but she does not rule out similar system for Britain

Donald Trump-style blanket travel bans on foreign citizens could be “viable” in the UK, Kemi Badenoch has said after giving a speech about law and immigration.

The Conservative party leader said she had not seen Trump’s list of banned countries but said: “I think there are scenarios where that is viable.”